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Volume I, Number 30
Thursday, 30 October, 2014
President delivers speech at coordination meeting on holding
25th ASEAN Summit
Nay Pyi Taw, 29
Oct — President U Thein
Sein delivered speech
Wednesday at the coordination meeting on preparation of the 25th ASEAN
Summit which will be
held in mid-November at
Myanmar
International
Convention Center-1 in
Nay Pyi Taw.
The central committee on the establishment of
ASEAN Community and
responsible for taking over
the tasks of rotating chairmanship of the bloc held
it’s the mid-term meeting
in 2014, discussing preparedness to host the summit.
In his opening speech
at the meeting, U Thein
Sein said that Myanmar
has become a member of
ASEAN in 1997, and this
year is the first time taking
the role of chairmanship
and the country has successfully organized the
24th ASEAN Summit and
related meetings, as well
as the 47th ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting
President U Thein Sein views round preparations for hosting 25th ASEAN Summit and related meetings at
Myanmar International Convention Centre.—mna
and ministerial level meetings in recent months.
The upcoming 25th
ASEAN Summit, its relat-
ed meetings and the East
Asia Summit would be the
last events for Myanmar as
a chairmanship of the bloc.
Dr Sai Mauk Kham
also explained the completions 17 sub-committees to prepare for the
Three new ferries donated by Japan arrive for
Dala-Yangon ferry service
By Aye Min Soe
Yangon, 29 Oct —
Three new ferries that will
replace the current two
ferries between Dala and
Yangon across the Yangon
River have arrived at Thilawa Port Terminal.
The three ferries,
Cherry 1, 2 and 3, will be
offloaded from the vessel
Paula beginning Thursday.
Each
ferry
cost
around US$4 million and
has a seating capacity of
more than 1,000 passengers. They are expected
(See page 2)
The three new ferries which will be unloaded off Paula Vessel as from Thursday will be ready to
operate ferry services before they are officially handed over to the Myanmar government
on 15 November. —Photo: Aye Min Soe
summit. Union ministers
for the foreign affairs, the
national planning and economic development and
the culture presented the
preparedness of respective
ministries.
MNA
Outcome of ASEAN Financial
Inclusion Conference to benefit
“unbanked” Myanmar people
By Ye Myint
Yangon, 29 Oct —
Through outcomes produced at ASEAN Financial
Inclusion Conference, Myanmar will be able to explore appropriate ways and
means of making access to
financial services possible
for people without access
to banks in the country,
Union Minister for Finance
U Win Shein told local
media at the conference in
Yangon on Wednesday.
As this year’s ASEAN
Chair, Myanmar hosted
the ASEAN Financial Inclusion Conference for enhancing access to finance
for people in the ASEAN
region. Key stakeholders in
the region, including policy
makers, academics, practitioners and officials from
UN agencies and regional
and global financial institutions, were brought together to the two-day regional
conference for sharing of
countries’ experience and
initiatives to ensure finan-
cial inclusion for low-income people in the region,
particularly in the CLMV
countries Cambodia, Laos,
Myanmar and Vietnam.
“This conference was
the outcome of the 18th
ASEAN Finance Ministers
Meeting 2014,” said the
Union minister, adding it is
aimed at seeking ways and
means for extending financial services to the people
with no access to banking
services, through exchange
of views, thoughts, experience and best practices that
will be taking place at the
conference.
In his welcoming remarks, the minister briefly
highlighted the importance
of financial inclusion,
which is closely associated with poverty reduction
in that most of 70 percent
of the world’s poor living
in rural areas are excluded from financial systems.
He pointed out 59 percent
of the world’s 2.5 billion
adults with no access to
(See page 9)
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Thursday, 30 October, 2014
parliament
Representative discuss additional budget at
Pyidaungsu Hluttaw
Nay Pyi Taw, 29
Oct — Representatives
discussed the additional
budget for 2014-15 fiscal
year at the Pyidaungsu
Hluttaw
Session
on
Wednesday.
Member of Projects
and Financial Develop-
ment Cooperation Committee proposed to reduce
the budgets for Ministry
of Agriculture, Ministry of
Electric Power and the Nay
Pyi Taw Council while
Representative U Aung
Lin Hlaing, on behalf of
the Public Account com-
mittee of the Pyithu Hluttaw, to lower the budgets
for Union Auditor-General Office and the Nay Pyi
Taw Council.
Representative Daw
Sanda Min pointed out
that budget for construction of the stage for pres-
Pyithu Hluttaw
Pyithu Hluttaw raises questions on Lido
road and castor oil plantations, discusses
electoral system
Nay Pyi Taw, 29 Oct
— Pyithu Hluttaw representatives on Wednesday raised questions on
upgrading Lido Road or
Stilwell Road and castor
oil plantations before discussing the appropriate
electoral system for the
country.
Concerning the question on Lido Road, Deputy
Minister for Construction
U Soe Tint said that the
Northern Royal Jade Company has proposed upgrading the road into a 4-lane
Nay Pyi Taw, 29 Oct
— Speaker of Pyidaungsu
Hluttaw and Pyithu Hluttaw (Lower House) Thura
U Shwe Mann held a talk
with President of Exim
Bank Mr Li Ruogu and party of the People’s Republic
of China at Zabuthiri Hall
of the Hluttaw Complex in
Nay Pyi Taw Council on
Wednesday.
The talk was also attended by chairman of the
Pyithu Hluttaw committees and commission and
officials of the Hluttaw Office.—MNA
asphalt road and the company will be permitted to
do so if the proposal is in
accord with the BOT system.
As for the castor oil
plantations, Deputy Minister for Agriculture and Irrigation U Ohn Than said
a pilot project in Thazi is
being implemented to use
castor oil for production of
diesel in accordance with
Kyoto Protocol to reduce
carbon dioxide emission.
Then, representatives
discussed the appropriate
electoral system for Myanmar.
Representatives Daw
Khin Thanda and Dr
Aung Moe Nyo supported
the current FPTP system
while Representative LtCol Kyaw Myint proposes
surveying the wish of the
public before changing the
electoral system.
Representative Daw
Than Ngwe proposed
holding a national referendum and changing the
electoral system.
MNA
idential audience is not in
accordance with the budget
but she said she was not
against it if it is necessary.
Pyithu Hluttaw Education Promotion Committee Chairman Dr Chan
Nyein proposed raising
budget for the Ministry of
Nay Pyi Taw, 29 Oct
— The Amyotha Hluttaw
(Upper House) continued
for the 25th day session on
Wednesday.
Deputy Minister for
Energy U Aung Htoo said
that No 1 Oil Refinery
(Thanlyin) will be renovated upon completion of
mutual cooperation tasks
with foreign companies to
build a new oil refinery so
as to distribute ROM 92
advanced fuel for domestic
consumption. Moreover,
feasibility studies are being
conducted for environment
mna
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to launch service before
mid-November.
The three ships will
be officially handed over
to Inland Water Transport
by Japanese officials on 15
November, said U Win Pe,
managing director of Inland Water Transport under
the Ministry of Transport.
Before the ceremony
to hand over the new ships
to the IWT, all the new ferries will be ready to run,
according to the IWT.
“The main reason we
are replacing with new
ships is for safety. All crew
members who will work
for construction of regional roads and power lines
in rural areas and representative Daw Nang Wah
Nu proposed spending
military operations on the
peace process.
The additional budget
bill will be approved by the
Pyidaungsu Hluttaw on 10
November.—MNA
Amyotha Hluttaw convene its
25th day session
Speaker Thura
U Shwe Mann receives
President of Exim
Bank Mr Li Ruogu
of China.
on the new ferries have
received training in Japan
when the three ships were
constructed there,” U Win
Pe said.
The current fee of
K100 per person will not
be increased.
Each of the two old
ferries between Dala Jetty
on Dala Bank and Pansodan Jetty on Yangon Bank
Religious Affairs to support teachers at monastic
education schools while
Representative Dr Nay Lin
and Representative Daw
Tin New Oo discussed the
budget for the Ministry of
Health and spending for
e-government respectively. Some representatives
asked for more spending
Amyotha Hluttaw
Speaker of Pyidaungsu Hluttaw and
Pyithu Hluttaw receives President of
Exim Bank of China
Three new ferries donated . . .
Pyidaungsu Hluttaw
run 46 times per day taking
about 20 minutes for a trip
between the two destinations and carrying about
15,000 passengers a day in
total, mostly from areas in
the Ayeyawady Delta and
southern parts of Yangon.
All three new double-deckers will run between the two jetties during
the rush hour, but only two
and socioeconomic status
of the people to be able to
build an oil refinery that
can distribute fuel RON 92
to central and upper Myanmar.
Deputy Minister for
Finance Dr Lin Aung said
that the E-Pension Card
system was introduced at
298 branches out of 317
under the Central Bank in
some districts and towns
in 2012-2013 fiscal year,
and this system has been
extended to additional 16
local banks in 2014-2015
fiscal year.
Amyotha
Hluttawspeaker announcedapproval of Pyithu Hluttaw (Lower
House) without amendment
on the bill of annulment of
the Rural Economic Development Fund Act 1960.
Deputy Minister Major-General Tin Aung Chit
discussed the suggestion of
U Bo Rei, representative of
Kayah State constituency,
about the need of regional
development programmes
for the ethic people in conflict areas as soon as internal peace has been made in
the country.—MNA
Border development
task contribute to
forging national unity
Nay Pyi Taw, 29 Oct
— Border development
task can uplift living standard of national races and
contribute to forging national unity, Union Minister for Border Affairs LtGen Thet Naing Win said
at the coordination meeting
on undertakings of border
development in 2014-15
fiscal year and plans for
regional development in
2015-16 fiscal year at the
ministry on Tuesday.
The union minister
stressed the need to implement the border region
development tasks meeting
set standards and effectively spend the fund on development tasks yearly.
Plans for the necessary
tasks are to be earmarked
in respective regions in
2015-16 fiscal year, he
added.
The union minister
reviewed their reports on
plans for 2015-16 fiscal
years
The Ministry of Border Affairs is building infrastructures for socioeconomic development of the
national races and development of human resources.
MNA
will operate at other times,
according to the managing
director of the Inland Water Transport.
Two bridges for arrival and departure with
pontoons have already constructed on the Dala Bank
with the assistance of the
Japanese government.
“The new three ships
are faster than the exist-
ing old ferries, with better
facilities and safety measures. Passengers will see
more convenience and
there will no need to wait at
jetties to cross the Yangon
River,” U Win Pe said.
IWT plans to use the
old ferries between two
suitable destinations across
the Yangon River in the future, he added.— GNLM
Thursday, 30 October, 2014
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National
President U Thein Sein and wife Daw Khin Khin Win offer
Kathina robes and provisions
Nay Pyi Taw, 29
Oct—President U Thein
Sein and wife Daw Khin
Khin Win offered meals,
fruits, flower and water
to the Buddha images at
Sasana Beikman in the
precinct of Nay Pyi Taw
Uppatasanti Pagoda where
the Kathina robe offering ceremony was held on
Wednesday.
The president and
wife donated offertories to
Chairman of State Sangha
Maha Nayaka Committee
Bhamo monastery Sayadaw Abhidhaja Maha Rattha Guru Abhidhaja Agga
Maha Saddhammajotika
Dr Bhaddanta Kumarabhivamsa and Kathina robes
and alms to presiding abbot of NanU Monastery
in Zabuthiri Township
Bhaddanta Ujjota.
Vice Presidents and
party offered alms to members of the Sangha.
After the ceremony,
the president and party do-
nated meals to members of
the Sangha.
Also present on the
occasion were Vice President Dr Sai Mauk Kham
and wife Daw Nan Shwe
Hmon, Vice President U
Nyan Tun and wife Daw
Khin Aye Myint, Chief
Justice of the Union U
Tun Tun Oo, Commander-in-Chief of Defence
Services Senior General
Min Aung Hlaing, Chairman of the Constitutional
Tribunal of the Union U
Mya Thein, Chairman of
the Union Election Commission U Tin Aye, Deputy Commander-in-Chief
of Defence Services Commander-in-Chief (Army)
Vice-Senior General Soe
Win, union ministers, the
chief of the general staff
(Army, Navy and Air), the
commander of Nay Pyi
Taw Command, deputy
ministers and members of
Nay Pyi Taw Council.
MNA
President U Thein Sein and wife Daw Khin Khin Win offer Kathina robe to a member of
the Sangha.—mna
Yongnam CAPE- JGC consortium wins
Hanthawaddy International Airport contract
President U Thein Sein cordially greets Mr Li Ruogu, President of Exim
Bank of China.—mna
Nay Pyi Taw, 29
Oct—President U Thein
Sein received Mr Li Ruogu,
President of Exim Bank of
China and party at the Presidential Palace in Nay Pyi
Taw on Wednesday.
They discussed coop-
eration in further promotion of economy between
Myanmar and China and
participation in economic
development tasks of Myanmar.
Also present were
Union Ministers U Wun-
na Maung Lwin, U Kyaw
Hsan, U Khin Maung Soe,
U Zeyar Aung, U Win
Myint and Dr Kan Zaw,
Governor of the Central
Bank of Myanmar U Kyaw
Kyaw Maung and officials.—MNA
Yangon, 29 Oct —
A consortium of Yongnam and Changi Airport
Planners and Engineering
(CAPE) from Singapore,
and Japan’s JGC Corporation won the tender for the
contract to build Hanthawaddy International Airport in Bago Region, the
Department of Civil Aviation announced Wednesday.
Hanthawaddy
Airport will be constructed on
more than 9,000 acres of
land where the Japanese
army built an airport during World War II. The $1.4
billion project is targeting
completion within three to
four years for commissioning into service in 2019,
according the DCA.
The consortium would
seek up to $706 million, 49
per cent of the estimated
project cost, from Japan’s
ODA funding and acquire
up to $518 million from
private sector initiative
funding, while spending
$222 million from its own
equity, said Director-General of the Department of
Civil Aviation U Win Swe
Tun to the press in Yangon
on Wednesday.
The
Hanthawaddy
International Airport pro-
ject is the largest of three
airport projects being undertaken to accommodate
the growing numbers of
foreigner travelers to Myanmar.
The number of tourist
arrivals has also increased
year by year, reaching 0.79
million in 2010, 1.06 million in 2012 and 2.04 million in 2013.
The Ministry of Hotels
and Tourism is targeting 3
million visitors this year.
Located in the Bago
region about 48 miles north
east of Yangon, the international airport is projected
to handle up to 12 million
passengers a year.
It takes about 90 minutes for passengers by car
from Bago to Yangon.
Negotiation with a
consortium led by Incheon
International Airport Corporation of South Korea
won the original contract
last year, but talks broke
down in January 2014 after disagreements between
the DCA and the Incheon
group over certain aspects
of the South Korean proposals, prompting the government to reopen the tender in February.—GNLM
A conceptual design of the Hanthawady
International Airport submitted by Yongnam
CAPE-JGC Consortium.
Photo: Supplied by DCA
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local news
Rural health branch commissioned into
service in Thaton Tsp
Thaton, 29 Oct — A
ceremony to commission
Theinseik-2 rural health
branch building into service was held at the building in Theinseik Ward of
Thuwunnawaty in Thaton
Township of Mon State on
28 October.
On the occasion, Mon
State Minister for Social
Affairs Dr Hla Oo urged
the local people to maintain
the health branch building
for its durability.
Managing Director U
Aye Lwin of Shwe Nadi
Phu Pwint Khin Construction Company handed over
documents related to the
building to an official of the
Health Department.
The
rural
health
branch was built in 201213 fiscal year, with the fund
K60 million of the Ministry
of Health.
It is the 29th facility of its kind in Thaton
Township, according to the
Township Health Department.—Thet Oo (Thaton)
Mandalay
Nay Pyi Taw
Taikkyi
Thaton
Zalun
Yangon
Mawlamyine
Farmers in Thaton difficult to hire farming
workers for harvesting paddy
Thaton, 29 Oct —
Now is time to harvest
monsoon paddy in Mon
State.
In Thaton Township
of Mon State, local farmers face shortage of farming workers as most of
the farmers competitively
hire the workers to harvest
their paddy fields.
“We cost K4000 per
workers for daily harvesting works last year. This
year, we are difficult to
hire the workers even we
pay K5000 per worker or
six baskets of paddy per
acre. Some farmers hire
the combine harvesters on
their farmlands,” farmer
Today’s
Myanmar
News sites
Buddhist culture course conducted
for basic education students
Ko Myint Than of Thaunggyikwin area said. The
one-third of paddy plantations is early-monsoon
Combined team sends samples of
goods to lab of FDA
Mandalay, 29 Oct—
Mandalay City Development Committee, Mandalay Region Commercial
and Consumer Affairs De-
partment, Food and Drug
Administration
branch,
Health Department and
market board of trustees
have made a surprise check
at the rows of shack shops,
tea and pickled tea shops
and chilli shops at Zaygyo
Market in Mandalay.
They sent samples
of 34 foods and foodstuff
to the lab of the FDA for
checking food security in
the market.
As of 10 October, the
combined team announced
that the action will be taken against those who sell
the inappropriate foods and
foodstuffs again. Moreover, officials of the combined team carried out consumer educative works.
Thiha Ko Ko
(Mandalay)
paddy strains in the villages. Although heavy rains
hit the region this year, it
did not harm the production rate of early-monsoon
paddy strains.
Thet Oo (Thaton)
Mandalay, 29 Oct—
The
Buddhist
culture
course was opened at Pyinnya Yadana Hall of No
16 Basic Education High
School in Chanayethazan
Township of Mandalay on
Tuesday morning.
About 2,000 students
from seventh, eighth, ninth
standards and matriculation attended the ceremony
where Secretary of My-
anmar Buddhist Cultural
Propagation Central Committee Chairman of Dhamma Yaungchi Dhammadana Foundation Saya U Hla
Myo explained the disciplines of the course. Abbot
Bhaddanta Vijayalankara
of Dhammayanthi Monastery of Mandalay gave
lectures on the Buddhist
culture to the trainees.
Tin Maung (Mandalay)
Thursday, 30 October, 2014
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local news
Buddhist culture
instructor course
Mandalay, 29 Oct —
The Myanmar Buddhist
Culture Propagation Central Committee and the
course committee jointly
conducted the opening of
Buddhist culture instructor course at the hall of No
16 Basic Education High
School on Monday.
Deputy Director (Admin/Finance) U Soe Myint
Aung of Mandalay Region
Education
Department
Departmental
officials carry
out public
welfare on
their field
trips
made a speech and Chairman of Dhamma Yaungchi
Dhammadana Foundation
Saya U Hla Myo explained
purpose of conducting the
course and its disciplines.
A total of 220 teachers from basic education
schools in five townships in
Mandalay District attended
the course on 26 and 27
October.
Tin Maung
(Mandalay)
Myayi Nanda low-cost housings completed for first phase
Mandalay, 29 Oct —
Under the arrangement of
Mandalay Region Government, Mandalay City Development Committee has implemented the first phase of
Myayi Nanda low-cost housings project in Chanmyathazi
Township of Mandalay.
On 28 October, Union
Ministers U Soe Thane, Dr
Kan Zaw and U Win Shein
and Region Chief Minister U
Ye Myint inspected the lowcost housings.
At the briefing hall,
the secretary of MCDC explained facts about the project, arrangements of power
and water supply and transport for people of the housings, and plan to accept the
applications for the housings.
Fund presented to construction of library
Nay Pyi Taw, 29 Oct
— A ceremony to present the cash assistance for
construction of a library in
Lewun Village was held
at the hall of Ottarathiri
Township General Administration Department of
Nay Pyi Taw Council Area
on Tuesday.
Staff Officer Daw
Swe Swe Moe of Ottara
District Information and
Public Relations Department presented K 1 million
to Chairman of the vil-
lage-tract supportive committee U Win Thein.
The library will contribute to widening the
scope of the students and
local people in general
knowledge of the world.
Shwe Ye Yint
Yangon Region Fisheries Department contributes to
uplift of living standards of local fishermen
Taikkyi, 29 Oct —
Yangon Region Fisheries
Department Head U Kyaw
Min and staff and local
fishermen released over
5,000 six-inch fish into the
cage for doing research in
Tawkhayan Lake of Taikkyi Township in Yangon
Region on 26 October.
Of them, over 1,000
fish were released again
into the cage at Tawkhayan
Lake and 8,000 fish into the
cage in Inchaung Creek.
The township fisheries department is not doing
research on fish species for
preservation of fishes.
With the aim of in-
creasing fish production
and income of fishermen,
the Head of Region Fisheries Department presented bamboo eel traps to
local fishermen of Lauklaychaung village and Yintaikkwin village.
Tun Hlaing
(Myaing)
Chief Minister U Ye
Myint and Mandalay Mayor U Aung Moung reported
on preparations for building
the parks, sports grounds,
schools, market, dispensary
and administrative office in
line with the town characteristics.
The Union ministers
visited the construction
project of the housings. A
total of 27 eight-apartment
four-storey buildings were
constructed on 7.67 acres
of land in Myayi Nanda
Ward and 30 four-apartment four-storey buildings
on 5.40 acres of farmlands
in Aungthaya Ward. The
construction started in September 2013.—Thiha Ko Ko
(Mandalay)
Zalun, 29 Oct —
Chairperson of Hinthada District Maternal and
Child Welfare Supervisory Committee Daw Maw
Maw Than and party and
Chairperson of Township
MCWA Daw Aye Aye
Soe and party gave talks
on nature of girls, prevention of human smuggling
and trafficking in Maryland Village of Zalun
Township in Ayeyawady
Region on 26 October.
Moreover,
Township Judge Daw Hlaing
Hlaing Wai gave lectures
on prevention of violence
against women and Head
of Township Health Department Dr Zaw Win
Than disseminated health
knowledge to the attendees.
After that, the township level departmental officials donated 100
books and publications to
Lin Yaung Chi Library,
ovaltine and medicines to
pregnant women and medical treatment to the aged.
Ngwe Than (IPRD)
Mon State Chief Minister oversees
regional development tasks
Mawlamyine, 29 Oct
— Mon State Chief Minister U Ohn Myint on 26 October met the principal and
faculty members at University of Computer Studies
(Thaton) and gave instructions on cultivation of vegetables, supply of water and
keeping the campus clean.
He inspected progress
of the staff quarter at Thaton People’s Hospital and
instructed officials to construct the building meeting
set standard.
At the briefing hall of
Wahpa Dam, he called for
arranging the supply of water to 500 acres of summer
paddy plantations and local
consumption.
The chief minister also
discussed systematic land
allotment for the highway
bus terminal.
He viewed paddy seed
production farm of Shwe
Oo Wai Company in Thaton and construction site
of Ahauk Creek Bridge in
Paung Township.
Mon State IPRD
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Thursday, 30 October, 2014
regional
Cambodia celebrates 10th anniversary of King’s coronation
Balloons are released during the celebration for the 10th anniversary of Cambodian
King Norodom Sihamoni’s coronation in Phnom Penh on 29 Oct, 2014. Cambodia on
Wednesday celebrated the 10th anniversary of King Norodom Sihamoni’s coronation,
urging people to continue uniting for national peace and development.—Xinhua
India uncovers suspected plot to
assassinate Bangladeshi PM
New Delhi, 29 Oct — India’s
top counter-terrorism agency has
uncovered a suspected plot by a
banned militant group to assassinate the prime minister of Bangladesh and carry out a coup, three
senior Indian security officials
told Reuters on Tuesday. India
will hand over a dossier to Bangladesh with details of the plan by
members of the Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen, which has carried out
scores of attacks in India’s eastern neighbour, the government
and police officials said.
Bangladesh did not comment
directly on the assertions that
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina
had been the target of a plot, but
said it had tightened security on
the border with India.
Mainly-Muslim Bangladesh
has suffered three major army
coups and two dozen smaller rebellions since gaining independence from Pakistan in 1971 in a
war that killed and displaced millions.
The alleged conspiracy was
discovered after two members
of the group were killed in an
explosion while building homemade bombs at a house in West
Bengal in eastern India earlier
this month. Indian police say the
militants were Bangladeshis and
were using India as a safe haven
to plan the attacks.
“The strategy was to hit the
political leaders of the country
and demolish the democratic infrastructure of Bangladesh,” said
a senior Indian Home (interior)
Ministry official, who spoke on
condition of anonymity.
“This was all being planned
on Indian soil and we could have
been blamed if there was an attack.”
Indian National Security
Adviser Ajit Doval on Monday
visited the house where the blasts
took place and met West Bengal
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee
to discuss the situation.
The revelations come against
a backdrop of political friction
earlier this year between Indian
nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Banerjee.
On one campaign stop in
West Bengal before his general
election victory in May, Modi
said illegal immigrants from
Bangladesh should get their
“bags packed” if he came to power.
Analysts said the speech
sought to mobilize Modi’s Hindu support base against Banerjee, who leads a regional party
in West Bengal that is backed by
many of the Muslims who make
up a quarter of the state’s 90 million population. Asaduzzaman
Khan, Bangladesh’s junior home
minister, said Dhaka had been
tipped off about a possible militant plot.
“We have received this information unofficially from India
about a terror threat to top politicians in Dhaka. This is the first
time there has been such information,” said Khan.
“We are always serious
about curbing the activities of the
militants. After the news from
India our (security) efforts have
been raised manifold.” West
Bengal Home Secretary Basudeb
Banerjee declined to comment.
Modi reached out to leaders of neighbouring countries as
soon as he was elected, inviting
them to his inauguration as prime
minister, and he sent his foreign
minister to Dhaka to establish
friendly relations. However, border disputes and water sharing remain unresolved issues between
the two countries.—Reuters
Phnom Penh, 29 Oct
— Cambodia on Wednesday marked the 10th anniversary of King Norodom
Sihamoni’s
coronation,
urging people to continue
united for national peace
and development.
In a rare public appearance, Sihamoni stressed
the importance of national
solidarity and unification,
which are the basic foundation for peace and development. “On this occasion,
I’d like to appeal to the
people in all walks of life
to unite together solidly as
one under the roof of the
constitution and state laws
in order to contribute to
protecting and constructing
our beloved motherland in
all fields,” he said to about
20,000 people in a ceremo-
ny, which was held in front
of the Royal Palace and
was televised live.
The event was attended by Prime Minister Hun
Sen, parliament chief Heng
Samrin, opposition leader
and lawmaker Sam Rainsy
and other senior officials
and foreign diplomats.
Meanwhile, the king
commended Hun Sen for
leading Cambodia to peace,
political stability, solidarity
and national unification.
Sihamoni, 61, ascended the throne as the King of
Cambodia on 29 Oct, 2004
after his father late King
Norodom Sihanouk abdicated due to health problems.
On the occasion, Prime
Minister Hun Sen and opposition leader Sam Rainsy
highly spoke of the king’s
role in social development
and national unification.
“His Majesty the King has
donated assets to build a lot
of social achievements,”
Hun Sen said in a blessing message to the king.
“These humanitarian activities have contributed to
rehabilitating and developing the nation rapidly.”
“The king is the symbol of
national unification, he always encourages all parties
to show respect for each
other and to seek solutions
to conflicts peacefully for
the sake of the nation,”Sam
Rainsy, president of the
opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party, told
reporters after attending the
ceremony.
Xinhua
Thai court throws out defamation case
against British rights activist
Bangkok, 29 Oct — A Thai
court on Wednesday dismissed
on a technicality a defamation
case brought against a British
human rights activist by a Thai
fruit company.
The case is the first of a
series of criminal and civil lawsuits filed against rights activist
Andy Hall, 34, by Natural Fruit
Co Ltd.
The firm, a pineapple
wholesaler that supplies to the
European Union, accused Hall
of libel over a report published
in 2013 that he helped author
for Finnwatch, a Finland-based
watchdog group.
The report “Cheap Has a
High Price” pointed to alleged
ill-treatment of migrant workers
at a factory owned by the firm,
including low pay and the confiscation of workers’ passports.
Natural Fruit has denied the accusations.
Natural Fruit is Thailand’s
biggest producer of canned
pineapples and is owned by Virat Piyapornpaiboon.
Hall’s trial concerned defamation charges brought by Natural Fruit against him for an interview he gave to Qatar-based
Al-Jazeera television, while he
was in Myanmar, based on the
report.
“Hall gave the interview
outside of the Kingdom of Thailand therefore the investigation
into the case had to include
a team of police and officials
from the attorney-general’s office,” a judge said in passing the
verdict.
“However, there was only
one police officer at the time of
his interrogation therefore we
deem the investigation to be incomplete.”
British rights activist Andy Hall speaks to the media as he arrives
for his trial at the Phra Khanong Provincial Court in Bangkok
on 2 Sept, 2014.—Reuters
The verdict comes as civil
society groups voice increasing concern over the treatment
of migrant workers in Thailand and a rise in the number
of criminal defamation cases
brought by the military against
rights workers and journalists.
The military, which ousted
an elected government and took
power in May, has no connection to the cases against Hall.
Speaking before the trial,
Hall said he was hopeful the
case would be dismissed.
“Based on the witness lineup that we had I felt the evidence we presented was very
strong and showed that I never
had intent to defame,” Hall told
Reuters.
“We are very confident.”
Sonja Vartiala, executive
director of Finnwatch, said in
an emailed statement: “We are
relieved and glad that justice
has prevailed in this case.”
A lawyer for Natural Fruit
said that the firm would appeal.
“We accept the court verdict today,” Natural Fruit lawyer Somsak Torugsa told reporters. “But we will appeal and
this will need to be done within
30 days.”
A second, $10 million civil defamation case brought by
Natural Fruit against Hall will
begin on Thursday.
Thailand
is
Southeast
Asia’s third-biggest importer of
migrant labour after Singapore
and Malaysia.
Workers from neighbouring Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar often do jobs that most
Thais are unwilling to do such
as farm hands, fishermen, construction workers and domestic
helpers.
Determining the number of
migrant workers in Thailand is
difficult as there is no official
data but most rights groups estimate there are between 2 and
3 million of them, most undocumented, which leaves them vulnerable to abuse. —Reuters
Thursday, 30 October, 2014
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world
For 23rd time, UN nations urge end to US embargo on Cuba
United Nations, 29
Oct — The UN General Assembly on Tuesday
voted overwhelmingly for
the 23rd time to condemn
the decades-long US economic embargo against
Cuba, with many nations
praising the island state for
its response in fighting the
deadly Ebola virus that is
ravaging West Africa.
In the 193-nation assembly, 188 countries voted for the nonbinding resolution, titled “Necessity
of Ending the Economic,
Commercial and Financial
Embargo imposed by the
United States of America
against Cuba.”
As in previous years,
the only countries that voted against the declaration
were the United States and
an ally, Israel. The Pacific
island nations Palau, Mar-
shall Islands and Micronesia abstained. The voting
result was identical to last
year’s.
In a speech on the UN
podium, Cuban Foreign
Minister Bruno Rodriguez
appealed to the United
States to change course on
an embargo he said has
caused great harm to the
people of Cuba and caused
cumulative economic damage amounting to more
than $1 trillion.
“We invite the government of the United States
to establish mutually respectful relations,” Rodriguez said. “We can try to
find a solution to our differences through respectful dialogue. “We can live
and deal with each other
in a civilized way despite
our differences,” he said.
“Cuba will never relinquish
Cuba’s Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla
our sovereignty.”
US envoy Ronald
Godard dismissed the resolution, saying Havana uses
the yearly General Assembly vote as an “attempt to
shift blame” for economic
problems that are its own
creation.
Evoking former US
President Ronald Reagan’s
famous “tear down this
wall” speech at the Berlin
Wall in 1987, Godard criticized the Cuban government’s restrictions on the
Internet, saying “tear down
the digital wall of censorship”.
While the General Assembly’s vote is nonbinding and symbolic, it serves
to highlight US isolation
regarding Havana. It is one
of very few issues where all
of Washington’s Western
allies part ways with the
United States.
A number of countries
lauded Havana for sending
more doctors than any other country to West Africa
to combat the biggest outbreak of Ebola since the
disease was identified in
1976.
Among those praising Cuba’s contribution
in the battle against Ebola
were Iran, on behalf of the
120-nation bloc of nonaligned countries, and Bolivia, on behalf the Group
of 77 plus China, a group of
developing nations. Mexico, India and others echoed
that praise.
Adoption of the resolution has become an
annual ritual. When it
first passed in 1992, it re-
ceived 59 yes votes and
three votes against. But
there were 71 countries
that abstained and 46 that
did not participate in the
vote. The gradual shift to
a near-unanimous vote in
favour is a clear sign of the
widespread disapproval of
the US embargo on Cuba.
Washington broke diplomatic ties and imposed
a comprehensive trade
embargo on the Communist-run Caribbean island
more than half a century
ago during the Cold War.
Its policy today appears to
be influenced by domestic
politics in Florida, where
Cuban exiles have opposed
any conciliation with former President Fidel Castro
or current President Raul
Castro, who took over for
his brother in 2008.
Reuters
In blow to PM Cameron, lawmakers criticize Vucic, Hague discuss economic situation
UK’s immigration ‘mess’
in Serbia and region
Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron
London, 29 Oct —
Britain’s border and immigration system is a
“mess”, lawmakers said
on Wednesday in a report
which will increase pressure on Prime Minister
David Cameron’s government to take a tougher line
on migrants ahead of next
year’s national election.
Opinion polls show
immigration is a major
concern for voters and it
has fueled the rise of the
UK Independence Party,
which may scupper Cameron’s chances of staying in
power after the May election by splitting the rightwing vote. UKIP backs
more immigration curbs
and Britain’s exit from the
European Union.
In a damning report,
parliament’s Public Accounts Committee said the
government could not track
people through the system
or check whether those refused the right to stay in
Britain had actually left the
country.
The government has
also failed to tackle a
long-standing backlog of
tens of thousands of asylum
applications and the number of new cases awaiting
a decision is increasing, it
said.
“The pressure is on
and the Home Office (interior ministry) must take
urgent steps to sort out this
immigration mess,” said
opposition Labour party
lawmaker Margaret Hodge,
chair of the committee.
At the end of the 201314 financial year there were
more than 175,000 people
whose applications to stay
in Britain had been rejected, the report said.
“It is deeply worrying
that the Home Office is not
tracking those people ...
to ensure that they are removed from the UK,” said
Hodge. “The department
should, as a matter of urgency, take more steps to
identify people who remain
in the UK illegally and
speed up their removal.”
The political debate in
Britain around immigration
has become increasingly
heated as Cameron and
other party leaders have
hardened their stances on
the issue in response to the
rise in popularity of UKIP.
Defence
Secretary
Michael Fallon spoke on
Sunday of some British
towns being “swamped”
by migrants. On Monday
he apologized for his use of
emotive language but said
the thrust of his remarks
about immigration was
correct.
The new report said
outsourcing group Capita
had been hired in 2012 to
check the records of more
than 250,000 people who
should have been removed
from Britain and by the end
of last year it was unable
to trace more than 50,000
of them. The committee,
made up of lawmakers
from Labour, Cameron’s
Conservatives and their
junior coalition partner the
Liberal Democrats, said it
was “disturbing” that the
government did not know
where these people were.
Reuters
London, 29 Oct —
Serbian Prime Minister
Aleksandar Vucic met in
London with House of
Commons Leader William
Hague to discuss the political and economic situation
in Serbia and the region
and economic reforms carried out by the Serbian government.
“I want to use the
economy as a nexus for regional connections,” said
Vucic.
Hague welcomed Serbia’s fiscal consolidation
measures, stressing that
the economy was of fundamental importance.
He pointed out that
Britain had a lot of experience when it came to economic measures, stressing
that it could be a great help
to Serbia.
Since 2010, the United Kingdom has reduced
the number of public sector employees by 400,000,
which has led to an increase in the number of
employees in the private
sector over the next four
years by 2.1 million. This
has led to the lowest unemployment rate in the last
decade, Hague said.
The discussion also
touched on regional cooperation and the need for
joint projects to ensure progress for the Western Balkan countries.
Vucic is on a visit to
London, during which he
will also meet with British Foreign Minister Philip Hammond and London
Mayor Boris Johnson.
The Serbian Prime
Minister will also take part
participate in an economic
summit.
Vucic held a lecture
at the London School of
Economics and Political
Science (LSE) last night,
where he said that the
Western Balkans would no
longer be defined by politics, but rather by economics.—Tanjug
Teenager arrested for alleged attempt to
blow up HK police station
Hong Kong, 29 Oct —
A teenager carrying a box
of explosives and a lighter
was arrested by police officers late on Tuesday in
Hong Kong after visiting
a police station and telling officers on duty that
he would detonate it, local
media group RTHK said.
The officers sub-
dued the boy, 15, at the
Aberdeen police station
on Hong Kong Island
and found sticks of white
powder inside the box he
had, assistant commander Fung Ka-ying said.
Bomb squad experts identified the powder as high
explosive TATP, or triacetone triperoxide, and
detonated it safely.
“No one was injured in
the case,” Fung said. “The
arrested person said he
learned from books on how
to make a bomb. The motive is under investigation.”
The report said the boy
was jobless and has a history of mental illness.
Kyodo News
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Thursday, 30 October, 2014
opinion
Thursday, 30 October, 2014
A brain drain is like rain
A
By Aung Khin
brain drain is like rain.
As a Myanmar saying goes, rain falls
more heavily on areas with an abundance of water resources. Drought areas have
few water resources, and average rainfall is also
very low there. However, regions with many water resources have seen regular precipitation,
sometimes, floods.
This phenomenon would be a perfect example to compare with the situation of brain drains
from many developing countries across the world.
Skilled workers from these countries might be attracted by better rates of pay and working conditions in developed countries. As a result, the developing countries face a shortage of skilled
labour, and it becomes harder to break the cycle
of losing effective workers.
The brain drain problem has many consequences, including less tax revenue and loss of
potential entrepreneurs for the development of
country. Developed countries can attract intelligent, well-educated individuals with better pay or
conditions.
And for many reasons, a country with low
economic growth will unavoidably suffer the increasing rate of brain drain. In some cases, Asian
parents send their children to more developed
countries for education. Due to the efforts and intrinsic nature of determined efforts, these children and adults are gaining success in education
Letter to the Editor
Dear Sir
I totally agree to the facts
(U) Khin Maung Myint presented in his letter to the Editor
which appeared in your Daily on
28 October, 2014. Even though I
haven’t contributed an article of
substance and style, I have been
a regular reader from the time of
The Working People’s Daily
since this is the only paper published in English locally. Frankly speaking, I deliberately omitted local news. And easily
switched to international news –
political, social and sports—usually sent by the Reuters or AFP. I
sincerely believe that I learn
something from reading a news
report: authenticity of a language
and a reliable source of information.
I am happy to express my
feelings that more and more freelance writers have contributed
valuable articles; at the same
time foreign correspondents
should be welcome to send their
reports or at least valuable articles from international newspapers should be reproduced in the
paper as they are printed in the
Straits Times of Singapore and
the Bangkok Post of Thailand to
upgrade its image or at least to
the satisfaction of learned readers like (U) Khin Maung Myint.
Managing an English newspaper
is never easy in a country like
Myanmar because of scarcity of
efficient writers in English; it requires a good command of the
language and an enormous
amount of background knowledge both international and local. After all, mastering English
is a never-ending process because it is not only a living language but also an official language
of
international
organizations—UN, IMF, ADB,
WORLD BANK, ASEAN, etc;
even a vast accumulation of a
wide range of knowledge cannot
meet the urgent needs of daily
needs.
I am going to highlight some
mistakes which irritated most of
your readers; some belong to the
public and the others to authorities concerned. You made a
headline on the page by dubbing
the former British Prime Minister as Tony Blare (Blair). A few
more examples such as’’ merit
gained”, “give knowledge’’, “A
wild cat claps when the forest is
on fire.” (A wild cat will surely
run away ---); a foreigner didn’t
get the meaning even if the sentence is grammatically correct
but Myanmar readers can easily
get the sense. They cannot send a
clear message to foreigner readers, actually. More examples are
given to your delights; Myanma
Five Star Line (Five-Star), Forever Group (forever is an adv),
88 Generation Group (’88 Generation Group), Peace and Open
Society (Peace-making and
Open Society), Global World Insurance (redundant) Successive
Employment Agency (Successive— a-coming one after the
other without a break), Oversea
calls available (oversea is not a
word), robbed off five tickles (ticals) and finally Tiger Woods is
on trial (trail). The above examples obviously show that they
require a combination of a language skill and a wide range of
general knowledge to get them
corrected. They of course are of
sub-standard English and cannot
send a clear message to readers.
Yet I still stick to subscribing the
Global NLM because a copy of
International New York Times
on sale in Innwa Bookstore cost
me K.4000, an equivalent of
two-month subscribing fees to
your semi-state-owned daily.
The author, Arakan Sein Hla Maung (Arakan Sein) is one of
the compilers of the Student’s Eng-Eng/Myanmar dictionary
published by then Ministry of Trade in 1993. He is a private
teacher-cum-translator.
or works of their destination countries.
It is almost sure they would not come back
their own countries, though they love their
homelands, after comparing incomes and living
conditions between the two economies. If the
original countries could not improve education
or working conditions, then these economies
will encounter an unstoppable loss of human
resources. Although developing countries could
not get back their precious work forces, a systematic plan must be adopted for “conservation
of the precious generation”.
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Do we really comply with words of wisdom
and practice to achieve the essence?
By Tommy Pauk
H
uman beings have highly
been civilized for thousands of years. They
have been passing through numerous socio-economic events
and revolutions in order to gain
betterment for humanity in the
history. Throughout the history,
up till Information Technology
Age, man has learnt a great deal
of sayings of philosophers as well
as wise and prominent people.
They also learn religious teachings from their respective religions in which they believe.
These wise, noble, ideal, realistic
sayings, proverbs, maxims and
teachings do have their own invaluable essence for humans to
comply and practice properly.
These sayings and teachings have
not been taught or said for humans to barely appreciate them .
To be able to achieve essence we
must practice and comply with
what we have been taught by religious teachings or what we have
learnt from these invaluable sayings.
We human beings desire a
series of cravings and never ever
satisfy with their lives. We humans are obliged to comply and
practice to achieve essence of
both secular conduct and spiritual
values because we humans are
the most intelligent and superior
animal on earth. At the moment,
man is conquering the world and
his tremendous discovery of
sciences and new technologies
are making progress in humanity.
Therefore, man is capable of
complying and practicing to
achieve essence of the words of
wisdom as well as religious
teachings.
Through learning and practice, we can find not only the absolute truth but also enlightenment in these teachings, proverbs
and sayings. If we really comply
and practice, we will attain a
great achievement in human life.
Moreover, we can manipulate our
life safely and successfully, if we
comply and practice the knowledge from proverbs, sayings and
religious teachings. Otherwise, it
is of no use to learn and appreciate the striking words. Consequently, we cannot enjoy peace
of mind in our lives.
Good moral behavior and
principles are to be practiced and
bad moral behaviors are to be
avoided. e.g., bad moral behaviors or unethical behaviors such
as committing homicide, stealing, scamming, cheating, malpractice, bribery and corruptions
are to be avoided all the time. We
should control our mind for not
letting us commit these sins in
life and comply with the noble religious teachings as well as ethical conduct firmly.
Besides, we must not associate with those who are bad guys
or hypocrites so that we can possess and enjoy clean and peaceful
human life. Some unscrupulous
persons do not care and comply
with the noble guidelines. They
ignore the values of it because
they are overwhelmed by sinful
deeds. Actually, those who do not
comply and practice cannot
achieve essence of human life.
Their misconduct and guilty conscience always threaten them and
they cannot enjoy real happiness
and peace in their life. Everyone
on earth demands peace, but few
people enjoy peace due to their
compliance and practice to the
sayings, proverbs, maxims and
religious teachings. No one can
coerce you to do good things, but
you must be mindful to choose
good things for your life. The
practices must be in conformity
with the principles, norms and
teachings laid down by virtuous
persons or ideal persons.
Actually, they are sorts of
training and exercises for us to
become genuine human beings.
The sayings or words of philosophers, writers, poets,
learned
persons, religious leaders, sage
and some national leaders are
very helpful guidelines for all
mankind. We respect and regard
their goodwill and fraternity towards all mankind. They said and
wrote proverbs ,maxims and ethical codes of conduct in order to
create the peaceful, pleasant and
harmonious human societies.
Since they are philanthropic,
kind, prominent, famous, honest,
humane and well-versed, we can
have chances to learn good and
bad things from their knowledge
and wisdom indeed. Furthermore,
the essence of such invaluable
thoughts, sayings and teachings
can be applied and utilized for the
benefit and interests of humanity.
Each and every race has its own
proverbs, words of wisdom, religious teachings which enlighten
them to prosper within their society with peace, joy and dignity. If
each and everyone complies and
practices to achieve essence, they
will certainly reach the peaceful
paradise. The traditional proverbs
can be found In the respective
clans, tribes, ethnic groups, national races. They are derived
from their own culture, custom
and lifestyles. The people concerned have to heed and practice
the proverbs in line with the model guiding words s or teachings.
The following proverbs and
maxims are helpful for us to acquire knowledge, guidelines and
reasoning power. (For secular
conduct)
1. ‘A fool and his money are
soon parted’.
2. ‘A man of words not of deeds
is like a garden full of weeds.’
3. ‘A stitch in time saves nine.’
4. ‘A word is enough for a wise
man’.
(See page 9)
GLOBAL NEW LIGHT MYANMAR
THE
Thursday, 30 October, 2014
OF
9
National
Outcome of ASEAN Financial...
Union Minister U Win Shein is seen surrounded
by local media during a coffee break at ASEAN
Financial Inclusion Conference at Sedona Hotel
in Yangon on Wednesday.—Photo: Ye Myint
(from page 1)
formal financial systems
are from East and Southeast
Asia and some 200 million
SMEs in emerging markets
also lack access to finance.
“It is partly correct to
say making access to finance easier for poor people
serves as part of poverty reduction, but appropriate use
of the credit is imperative
and, for example, it is required to facilitate farmers
to invest in their farms,” he
replied to a question on how
to make financial services
easier for the poor.
“If not so, they will get
into debt,” he warned.
Financial
inclusion
alone will not be “a silver
bullet” and will not be “a
magical medicine” for poverty reduction, but it is an
important ingredient for the
future growth of this country, said Thomas Foerch,
head of project at Deutsche
Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ),
who is one of the paper presenters at the conference.
During the two-day
conference, two key papers
focusing on the critical role
of financial inclusion in sustaining equitable economic
development in ASEAN
and women’s economic
empowerment in the role of
finance will be presented.
Presentation of 13 papers
by specialists will also take
place.
GNLM
Do we really comply with words...
(from page 8)
5.‘All is not gold that glitters.’
6.‘Beauty is but skin deep.’
7.‘Barking dog seldom bite.’
8.‘Blood is thicker than water.’
9.‘Bread is the stuff of life.’
10.‘Business is business’.
11.‘Call no man happy until he dies.’(Because anything
may happen in life)
12.‘Careless shepherds make many a feast for the wolf.’
13.‘Charity begins at home’
14.‘Confession is good for the soul’.
15.‘Censure and scandal are not the same’.
16.‘Dexterity comes by experience.’
17.‘Destiny leads the willing, but drags the unwilling’.
18.‘Eat to live; don’t live to eat’.
19.‘Every man is the architect of his own fortune’.
20.‘Faint heart never won fair lady’.
21.‘Fortune knocks once at every man’s door’.
22.‘Good masters make good servants’.
23.‘History repeats itself’.
24.‘Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue’.
25.‘If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try again!
26.‘Jeerers must be content to taste of their own broth’.
27.‘Knotty timber requires sharp wedges’.
28.‘Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it’.
29.‘Knowledge is power.’
30.‘Lazy people take most pains’.etc,
We must find the essence of the sayings by ourselves
for our lives to be smooth and comfortable in secular societies.
The Buddha had taught the practice to lay- people or
layman as well as to Buddhist monks to attain both secular success and spiritual merit.
Myanmar-ERIA-Harvard Symposium kicks off
Nay Pyi Taw, 29
Oct — The MyanmarERIA-Harvard
Symposium: Maximizing AEC
benefit towards a Peaceful
and Prosperous Community took place at Thingaha
Hotel in Nay Pyi Taw on
Wednesday morning, with
addresses by Union Minister for National Planning
and Economic Development Dr Kan Zaw, ERIA
CEO Professor Hidetoshi
Nishimura and ASEAN
Secretary-General
Le
Luong Minh.
Dr Than Tun of Myanmar Development Resource Institute-MDRI presided over the symposium.
Senior policy coordinator
Mr Yoshifumi Fukunaga
of ERIA discussed suggestions on fourth stage of
AEC assessment, economist Dr Jayant Menon of
Asia Development Bank,
achievements of AEC and
challenges and managing
director Dr Titik Anas of
Presisi Indonesia Research,
experience of Indonesia in
preparation for AEC.
Moreover,
Deputy
Director-General
Dato’
Abdul Latif of Malaysia
Productivity Commission
focused on experiences on
uplift of SME industries
in Malaysia, Prof George
Abonyi, adviser to the
Ministry of National Planning and Economic Development, more participation
of SMEs in AEC, and Professor Shandre Tangavalu
of Adelaide University of
Australia, regional policy
on innovation and technical
transfer for SMEs.
Senior
Researcher
Dr Ponciano S. Intal of
ERIA explained post-2015
ASEAN situation, Ms Yumiko Murakami of Japan’s
OECD, emergence of ASEAN with sustainable development, senior economic
officer Daw Than Than Lin
of Myanmar, actual situation of Myanmar and Prof
Thomas Valley of Harvard
University and U Bo Bo
Nge of Myanmar, efforts of
Myanmar to graduate from
LDC status.
MNA
International film heritage festival launched
Yangon, 29 Oct—The
first international film heritage
festival was opened at Nay Pyi
Taw Cinema in Yangon on
Tuesday, attended by Deputy
Minister for Information
U Pike Htway.
Before the ceremony,
Deputy Minister U Pike Htway and French Ambassador
Mr Thierry Mathou discussed
cooperation in development of
film industry between the two
countries.
Nine ancient films from
the US, Mongolia, France, Japan and England are being
presented to the movie-lovers
from 28 to 2 November.
MNA
Deputy Minister for Information U Pike Htway attends opening
ceremony of first international film heritage festival.—mna
38 Blessings for Auspiciousness taught by the
Buddha are as follows:1.Not to associate with the fool
2.To associate with the wise
3.To pay homage to those worthy of it
4.To reside in a suitable place
5.To have done meritorious deeds in the past life
6.To keep oneself pure
7.To acquire knowledge
8.To learn a trade
9.To learn and adopt ethical ways
10.To speak genially
11.To care and provide for one’s parents
12.To cherish and provide for one’s wife and children
13.To do the uncomplicated work
14.To do acts of charity
15.To observe and practice good deeds
16.To support one’s kin and and relatives
17.To do things free from sins and harm
18.To avoid evil thoughts and and intentions
19.To avoid evil deeds and words
20.To abstain from taking liquors and intoxicants
21.To be mindful of doing good deeds
22.To pay respect to those worthy of it
23.To be humble
24.To be contented
25.To acknowledge and return one’s gratitude
26.To hear Dhamma on proper occasions
27.To be tolerant
28.To heed to the guiding words and advice of elders
29.To pay respect and offerings to monks
30.To discuss the Dhamma on proper occasions
31.To practice ascetically
32.To observe and practice the Noble Virtues
33.To know the noble truths
34.To realize Nibbana
35.Not to be affected by vicissitudes of life
36.To have no worries
37.To be free from passions
38.To be free of the existence cycle
We need to emphasize our conduct for complying
with the noble path in human life and whether we achieve
the essence of the Buddha teachings or not. In fact, these
blessings must be attained by our practice and compliance. Only learning, appreciating and comprehending are
not good enough to achieve essence.
****The following compilation is from The Buddha’s teachings in the Dhammapada –a practical guide to
right living.
“ The evil-doer suffers here and hereafter; he suffers
in both the worlds. The thought, “Evil have I done,” torments him, and he suffers even more when gone to realms
of woe.
“The doer of good here and hereafter; he delights in
both the worlds. The thought, “Good have I done,” delights him, and he delights even more when gone to realm
of bliss.
“ The foolish and ignorant indulge in heedlessness,
but the wise one keeps his heedfulness as his best treasure.”
“ Wisdom never becomes perfect in one whose mind
is not steadfast, who knows not the Good Teaching and
whose faith wavers.****
We speak proverbs. We utter maxims .We recite
verses of religious teachings. We comply with the directions and guidelines from them. We gain benefits from
practice. Eventually, we attain essence of them.
Live in life with essence pertaining to the absolute
truth on earth .!!!
Tommy Pauk is the pseudonym of U Thein Swe, who
is B.A (English) and (Registered Law) R.L I. degrees
holder. He has English Teaching experience at
Yangon University English Department and
Workers’ college in Yangon, and now is working as
freelance writer and English Teacher cum
Translator/Interpreter for foreign firms.
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GLOBAL NEW LIGHT MYANMAR
Thursday, 30 October, 2014
THE
OF
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Iraqi security forces advance in new bid for Baiji refinery
Baghdad, 29 Oct — Iraqi
security forces said they advanced to within 2 km (1.2 mile)
of the city of Baiji on Wednesday in a new offensive to retake
the country’s biggest oil refinery that has been besieged since
June by Islamic State militants.
Backed by Shi’ite militias
and army helicopters, government forces have swept through
a desert area to the west of Baiji, aiming to recapture the city
200 km (130 miles) north of the
capital.
They hope to cut off supply
lines to militants encircling the
refinery and gain control of a
road leading to the city of Mosul,
an army colonel told Reuters.
Islamic State fighters swept
through northern Iraq in June,
seizing the city of Baiji and surrounded the sprawling refinery.
Since then, government
forces inside the refinery complex have been surrounded by
the Sunni insurgents who have
failed to take it despite frequent
attacks and suicide bombings.
“We have made good advances. We have taken over
six villages and now we are
only 2 km away from the city
of Baiji,” said the colonel, who
requested anonymity.
Islamic State has used roadside bombs and snipers to slow
down the government forces’
progress.
“Since yesterday morning
we have defused 300 roadside
bombs planted by the terrorists
to delay our advance,” the colonel said.
The Baiji refinery was producing around 175,000 barrels
per day before it was closed, a
senior Iraqi official said in June.
Iraq’s domestic daily consumption is estimated at 600,000700,000 bpd.
Iraqi security forces said
they had gained momentum
elsewhere over the last week,
retaking the town of Jurf alSakhar, just south of Baghdad.
Government troops also
retook parts of the Himreen
Mountains overlooking Islamic
State supply lines north of the
capital, said another army colonel.
These accounts of government advances could not immediately be independently confirmed.
Kurdish peshmerga fighters
have also been battling Islamic
State in the north, where they
have made progress backed
by US air strikes.
Mastermind of failed Australia
beheading plot killed in Middle East
Sydney, 29 Oct — A former
Sydney bouncer said to have
masterminded a failed plot by Islamic State militants to behead a
random member of the public in
Australia is believed to have died
in the Middle East, Australian
media reported on Wednesday.
Mohammad Ali Baryalei,
who was believed to be one of the
group’s most senior members and
a top recruiter of foreign fighters,
was thought to have died in fighting in Syria or Iraq four or five
days ago, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation reported.
“We are currently seeking
to verify those reports, so I can’t
confirm them at this stage,” Foreign Minister Julie Bishop told
reporters.
A spokesman for Attorney
General George Brandis declined to comment on reports
of his death. Abdul Salaam
Mahmoud, who belonged to the
same street-proselytizing group
as Baryalei in Sydney, wrote on
Facebook of Baryalei’s death, the
Sydney Morning Herald newspaper reported.
“I’ve just received the news
that our beloved brother Mohamed Ali who was recently
strongly attacked by Australian media has been martyred,”
Mahmoud said.
More than 800 police raided
homes in Sydney and Brisbane
in September as part of a sweeping counter-terrorism operation
aimed at stopping what the government said was a plot to kidnap
and publicly behead a random
Australian citizen.
Australia is concerned over
the number of its citizens believed
to be fighting overseas with militant groups, including a suicide
bomber who killed three people
in Baghdad in July and two men
shown in images on social media
holding the severed heads of Syrian soldiers.—Reuters
Police talk
outside a
house that
was involved
in
pre-dawn
raids in the
western
Sydney suburb
of Guilford on
18 Sept, 2014.
Reuters
Iraqi peshmerga arrived
in southeastern Turkey early
on Wednesday ahead of their
planned deployment to the
Syrian town of Kobani to help
fellow Kurds repel an Islamic
State advance which has defied
US-led air strikes.
Reuters
An explosion following an
air-strike is seen in the Syrian
town of Kobani from near the
Mursitpinar border crossing on
the Turkish-Syrian border in
the southeastern town of Suruc,
in Sanliurfa Province
on 29 Oct, 2014.—Reuters
Iraqi Kurds to bring anti-tank weapons to
Syria’s Kobani
Beirut, 29 Oct — Iraqi Kurdish fighters are expected to bring
anti-tank and anti-armour weapons when they enter the Syrian
town of Kobani on Wednesday
to aid fellow Kurds in their fight
against Islamic State militants, a
Syrian Kurdish official said.
Saleh Moslem, co-chair of
the Syrian Kurdish Democratic
Union Party (PYD), said the Iraqi
“peshmerga” fighters were ex-
pected to enter Kobani - known
as Ayn al-Arab in Arabic — later
on Wednesday. “They’re supposed to bring ... mainly anti-armour weapons, anti-tank,” he
said. “Of course, more than that
they have some weapons ... to defend themselves also. But mostly
it’s mainly artillery, or anti-armour, anti-tank weapons.”
He said the weapons should
help the Syrian Kurdish fighters
of the YPG armed group fend off
Islamic State fighters who have
used armoured vehicles and tanks
in their assault on the town.
“The YPG, they’re just defending. They can do it. But these
armoured vehicles and tanks were
making problems for them ... The
YPG forces could not do it with the
weapons they have. So now this
will give support,” he said.
Reuters
Kerry says Canadian parliament attack
clearly ‘terrorist act’
Ottawa, 29 Oct — US Secretary of State John Kerry said on
Tuesday that an attack on the Canadian parliament and the country’s National War Memorial
last week in which a soldier was
killed was clearly a terrorist act.
“Clearly, anybody who
walks up in a premeditated way
with a loaded rifle and attacks
someone in uniform then purposely goes to a parliament, is
committing, by common sense
standards, a terrorist act,” Kerry
told a news briefing after talks in
Ottawa with his Canadian counterpart, Foreign Minister John
Baird.
Two days before the attack
in Ottawa on 22 October, a car
driven by a man described by police as a homegrown radical ran
down two soldiers, killing one in
Quebec.
Since then Canadians have
debated whether the attackers
were motivated by Islamist ideology and a desire to sow terror or
whether they were merely mentally unstable and marginalized
individuals.
Baird echoed the Canadian
government’s view that whatever
the mental state of the attackers,
their acts were terrorism.
Kerry came to Ottawa on his
first visit to Canada since becoming secretary of state last year to
show solidarity and discuss security issues following the attacks.
US Secretary of State John Kerry and Canadian Foreign Minister
John Baird (L) talk as they walk from a wreath laying ceremony at
the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the National War Memorial
in Ottawa on 28 Oct, 2014. — Reuters
Kerry also said Canada and the
United States would work to intensify their close security ties,
including border security and intelligence sharing.
“Canada and the United
States are now in discussions, not
with any sense that things weren’t
done or that there was some information that we didn’t somehow
share or have, but rather with a
view to making certain that every
possible stone is turned over and
every possible policy is reviewed,
because our obligation obviously
is to protect our citizens,” he said.
Kerry said he was confident that
in the coming days and months
the two countries would come up
with “some tweaks, some changes, some additions that will promote even greater security than
we have today.”
The United States and Canada share the world’s largest undefended border and for decades
have also exchanged information
about people deemed to be high
risk. However, a Canadian official said on Saturday that Canada
did not share some intelligence
with the United States about the
two men who carried out the attacks last week because of a 2013
court ruling limiting the transfer
of personal data.—Reuters
Thursday, 30 October, 2014
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Science & Technology
US regulators to vote on treating Internet TV like cable
Washington, 29 Oct
— The US Federal Communications Commission
in coming weeks will vote
on whether Internet TV
should have the same access to television programming as cable and satellite
TV providers, which could
shake up competition in the
video industry.
FCC Chairman Tom
Wheeler on Tuesday said
he has asked his fellow
commissioners to vote on
a proposal that would help
Internet TV services, such
as ones being developed by
Dish Network Corp, Sony
Corp and Verizon Communications Inc, to compete
with traditional pay-TV for
digital rights to major network programming.
The potential regu-
latory change concerns
online subscription video
services that offer scheduled programming similar
to traditional pay-TV providers, and not online video services such as Netflix
Inc that stream content on
demand. Satellite provider
DirecTV is another company that has indicated
plans for an Internet video service and CBS Corp
this month revealed a plan
for an Internet streaming
service that would include
scheduled programming.
Time Warner Inc’s
HBO will also launch a
standalone online streaming product but its details
are unclear.
Traditionally, the FCC
has ensured that cable and
satellite TV providers such
US Federal Communications Commission Chairman
Tom Wheeler testifies before a House Energy and
Commerce Communications and Technology Subcommittee hearing on oversight of the FCC on Capitol Hill
in Washington on 20 May, 2014. — Reuters
as Comcast Corp could negotiate for rights to retransmit network programming.
Online video services have
not had the same regulatory
backing because they rely
on a different technology
and do not have their own
video distribution facilities.
Now, the FCC will
Electronic Arts raises 2015 forecast, profit
beats estimates
Electronic Art’s CEO Andrew Wilson presents at the Electronic Arts (EA) World
Premiere: E3 2014 Preview press conference at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California, on 9 June, 2014. — Reuters
San Francisco, 29 Oct Tuesday, on cost controls billion (2.59 billion pounds)
—Videogame
publisher and strong digital sales from in non-GAAP revenue and
Electronic Arts Inc raised titles including “FIFA” and non-GAAP net income
its 2015 forecast and report- “Madden.” The Redwood of $2.05 per share in fised stronger-than-expected City, California-based com- cal 2015. It had previously
second-quarter results on pany said it expects $4.18 forecast $4.1 billion in rev-
enue and $1.85 per share
in profit. Electronic Arts is
seeing “continued growth
of generation 4 console
(Xbox One and PlayStation
4) and still solid results in
our older console business
as well,” Chief Financial
Officer Blake Jorgensen
said in an interview.
“The digital side of the
business, full-game downloads as well as digital
services around those businesses like ‘FIFA Ultimate
Team’ and ‘Madden Ultimate Team’ are continuing
to perform well above our
expectations.”
For the three months
ended 30 September, the
company posted nonGAAP revenue of $1.22 billion, compared with $1.04
billion a year ago. Wall
Street analysts had estimated revenue of $1.16 billion,
according to Thomson-Reuters I/B/E/S. — Reuters
Japan’s Rakuten Inc launches cheap smartphone service
Tokyo, 29 Oct — Japanese e-commerce giant
Rakuten Inc said it will offer a cut-rate smartphone
service for about a third of
the monthly fees charged
by the country’s three dominant operators, adding to
increasing price competition in the sector.
Japan’s
smartphone
services for light users are
particularly expensive compared with other developed
markets, prompting Rakuten and other firms such as
retail giant Aeon and Internet Initiative Japan to offer
new services by pairing
with or becoming mobile
virtual network operators
A man walks under a logo of Rakuten Inc during a
news conference in Tokyo on 14 Feb, 2014. —Reuters
(MVNOs).
ly fee of 2,200 yen (12.39
Rakuten’s new MVNO pounds), excluding the cost
service will offer a com- of the phone.
bined voice and basic data
That compares with
plan for an average month- about 6,500 yen a month
for a basic voice and data
plan at all three of Japan’s
leading wireless carriers —
NTT DoCoMo Inc, KDDI
Corp’s au and SoftBank
Corp. Unlike Rakuten’s basic plan, however, users can
make as many calls as they
want.
Aeon said in March its
basic voice and data plan
would cost 2,980 yen per
month, including the cost
of the phone for a two-year
contract.MVNOs, which
rent access to other companies’ networks, currently
account for about 5 percent of the mobile market,
according to a government
report. —Reuters
vote on levelling the playing field with a technology-neutral definition of a
“multichannel video programme distributor,” with
the goal of encouraging
new competition in the video market.
“Twenty-first century consumers shouldn’t be
shackled to rules that only
recognise
20th-century
technology,” Wheeler said
in a blog post on Tuesday.
“Consumers have long
complained about how
their cable service forces
them to buy channels they
never watch. The move of
video onto the Internet can
do something about that
frustration, but first Internet video services need access to the programmes.”
A draft of the propos-
al tentatively concludes
that online TV services
should have the same access to cable and local TV
programmes as traditional
pay-TV services and seeks
comments on whether the
obligations imposed on the
two types of video services
should also be the same.
If adopted, some analysts see the proposal as
potentially also creating a
new opening for Aereo, a
video streaming company
whose business model was
questioned by a Supreme
Court ruling in June that
said the company had infringed broadcasters’ copyrights by capturing live and
recorded programs through
antennas and transmitting
them to subscribers. —
Reuters
US cargo rocket
explodes seconds
after launch
The video grab image from NASA TV shows the rocket
carrying a spaceship explodes over the launch complex
at Wallops Island, the United States, 28 Oct, 2014. An
unmanned rocket operated by private US firm Orbital
Sciences Corp. exploded Tuesday seconds after its
launch, NASA TV showed.
Xinhua
Washington, 29 Oct
— An unmanned rocket
operated by private US firm
Orbital Sciences Corp exploded on Tuesday seconds
after its launch, NASA TV
showed.
The Antares rocket
carrying the company’s
Cygnus spacecraft blew up
six seconds after its liftoff at 6:22 pm EDT (2222
GMT) from US space
agency NASA’s Wallops
Flight Facility in eastern
Virginia.
TV footage showed
flames rising into the sky.
There were no casualties and property damage
on the ground was limited
to the south end of Wallops
Flight Facility, Orbital said.
The Virginia-based company has formed an anomaly
investigation board, saying
it will work in close coordination with all appropriate government agencies to
determine the cause of the
mishap.
“It is far too early to
know the details of what
happened,” Frank Culbertson, Orbital’s executive vice president said
in a statement. “We will
conduct a thorough investigation immediately to
determine the cause of this
failure and what steps can
be taken to avoid a repeat
of this incident.”
Cygnus is carrying
5,050 pounds (2,290 kg) of
supplies for its third cargo
resupply mission to the International Space Station.
It’s also the first nighttime
launch of the spacecraft.
One of the new experiments on board is the socalled Drain Brain investigation, a study that will
try to determine how blood
flows from the brain down
to the heart in the absence
of gravity.—Xinhua
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Thursday, 30 October, 2014
World
Russian plane with European satellite departs
for Baikonur after emergency landing
The An-124-100 plane cut short its flight from Moscow to Baikonur
on Tuesday and made an emergency landing in the city of Ulyanovsk because of
technical problems.—Itar-Tass
Moscow, 29 Oct — A
Russian transport plane
Ruslan carrying a European
communications satellite
Astra 2G departed for Baikonur, in Kazakhstan, early
on Wednesday, the head of
the Volga-Dnieper company’s PR group of the foreign relations department
Taisia Nikitenko said. The
An-124-100 plane cut short
its flight from Moscow to
Baikonur on Tuesday and
made an emergency landing
in the city of Ulyanovsk, on
the Volga River, because of
an increase of temperature
in the plane’s fourth engine.
The crew of the plane,
owned by the Volga-Dnieper Airlines, decided to
switch off the engine and
made an emergency land-
ing following consultations
with the customer. The
company later said the plane
underwent
maintenance
and several parts of the engine have been replaced.
The company stressed the
launch of the European
satellite, scheduled for late
November, is unlikely to be
postponed due to the emergency landing. Ruslan has a
dual redundant system and
could have continued the
flight. The Astra 2G satellite is due to be launched by
a Proton-M carrier rocket
from the Baikonur space
center in the end of next
month to provide communications services to a number of countries in Europe,
Central Africa and Asia.
Itar-Tass
Serbian citizens are most optimistic in region
Belgrade, 29 Oct—
Forty percent of Serbian citizens expect the economic
situation to improve, while
in Croatia that percentage is
11, in Montenegro 26 and in
Macedonia 37, according to
a survey by Ipsos Strategic
Marketing.
The survey states that
33 percent of Serbian people expect their personal
financial situation to improve, the daily Politika has
reported.
However,
although
they are the most optimistic in the region, the
Serbian people are also
fairly pessimistic, with
41 percent of those sur-
veyed stating that they do
not expect the economic
situation in the country to
improve, but to actually
deteriorate.
Every third household
in Western Europe has felt
the effects of the economic
crisis. In countries undergoing transition, every second
household has been affected. Three quarters of households in Serbia has had
its members lose their job
or their income drop. The
phone survey was ordered
by the European Commission, conducted in September and included a sample
of 1,000 people.
Tanjug
Japan to
require phone
carriers to
lift SIM locks
from next
May
Tokyo, 29 Oct — The
Japanese communications
ministry plans to require
mobile phone service operators to remove carrier-specific
restrictions,
or SIM locks, on phone
handsets from models to be
launched from next May, a
source close to the matter
said on Wednesday. The
move is expected to spark
price competition by enabling them to switch to a
different carrier with lower-fee services without replacing their handsets. The
ministry will make a final
decision by the end of the
year after collecting and reviewing public comments
on a proposal it plans to
release this week, according to the source. Under the
new rule, the government
will issue a business improvement order if mobile
carriers refuse to remove
the locks without reasonable grounds.
In Japan, mobile phone
subscribers have to buy
expensive handsets when
they change carriers, while
many countries in Europe
and the United States have
already abolished SIM
locks. Apple Inc. of the
United States will also be
subject to the rule, likely
from a new iPhone model
it is expected to launch in
autumn next year.
Kyodo News
Australia reaches climate
policy compromise
Sydney, 29 Oct —
Australia’s government
has reached a compromise with independent
senators and a key opposition party to secure
support for a A$2.5 billion ($2.2 bln) fund to
cut greenhouse gas emissions, media reports said
on Wednesday.
The ruling Liberal
party has secured backing from the Palmer
United Party (PUP) and
independent
senators
Nick Xenophon and
John Madigan, with details to be released later
on Wednesday, accord-
ing to the Guardian and
the Australian Financial
Review.
A compromise would
put an end to a years-long
debate on how Australia
can meet its target of cutting greenhouse gas emissions to 5 percent below
2005 levels by 2020.
In August, the government dismantled a broad
carbon pricing scheme put
in place by the previous Labour government, saying it
was too expensive.
Under the policy,
known as the Direct Action Plan, the government
would set up a $2.5 bln
Emissions Reduction Fund
that would pay big polluters to cut their emissions.
According to the
Guardian, the government
has accepted proposals
by Senator Xenophon to
put in place a “safeguard
mechanism” to ensure
emissions in the coal-dependant nation do not rise
under the new scheme.
Details of the safeguard
mechanism will be panned
out later, but is expected to
include some form of penalty for companies that fail
to meet government-set
benchmarks.
But according to the
reports, the government
has rejected proposals to
set aside A$500 million
to buy UN-issued carbon
offsets from abroad to
ensure the target is met.
The Palmer United Party has backed the
compromise because the
government has agreed
to review its plan to design an emissions trading
scheme that would only
enter into force when
other large emitters, such
as China and the United
States, have similar policies in place, the Guardian reported.
Reuters
Registered electors cast ballots at a polling station in
Fairfax County, Virginia, the United States,
on 28 Oct, 2014. Early voting of US midterm
elections was held at Fairfax County Government
Centre on Tuesday.—Xinhua
Thursday, 30 October, 2014
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Many feared
killed, 250 remain
missing in Sri
Lankan landslide
Colombo, 29 Oct —
Many people are feared
dead after being buried alive
on Wednesday following a
massive landslide in Haldammulla, located between
the central and southern
parts of Sri Lanka, reporters
in the area said adding that
rescue operations were now
underway. The Sri Lankan
Disaster Management Centre said that over 250 people
are reported missing after
their homes were buried during the landslide.
Security Forces Head
Quarters Commander, Central, Major General Mano
Perera said that the security
forces are now involved in a
massive rescue operation in
the area. Several bodies have
been recovered with some
houses buried in over 30
feet of mud following heavy
rains in the area overnight.
Xinhua
US Fed begins policy meeting, likely to end asset-buying stimulus
Washington, 29 Oct
— The US Federal Reserve
began its two-day policy meeting Tuesday with
speculation that the central
bank is likely to end the
asset purchase stimulus on
the back of the improvement in labour market.
The Federal Open
Market Committee, the
Fed’s policy-setting panel
including Fed chief Janet
Yellen, already said last
month it will terminate the
quantitative easing program this month if economic data permits.
The Fed introduced the
programme in September
2012 that provided a massive amount of money by
buying financial assets in
the market to help prop up
the sagging US economy,
saying it would continue
with it until the job market
improves “substantially.”
The jobless rate last
month sank to a six-year
low of 5.9 percent, compared with 7.8 percent
which was logged when the
Fed launched the stimulus.
Even if it ends the liquidity injection program,
the Fed is expected to keep
the ultralow short-term interest rate through the policy-setting meeting that will
end on Wednesday.
The Fed kept the market guessing about when it
will raise the interest rate,
which is currently set at
zero to 0.25%, in FOMC
meetings earlier this year,
simply saying, it will maintain the level “for a considerable time” after the asset
purchase programme ends.
The Fed introduced
the asset purchasing program in September 2012
as a third round of quantitative easing, dubbed QE3.
It first purchased $40
billion of federal agency
mortgage-backed securities
each month and ratcheted
up the size of the accommodative easing program
three months later, decid-
ing to additionally buy $45
billion of US government
bonds.
The Fed has scaled
back the program in steps
since January and the
amount of asset purchase
fell to $15 billion this
month.—Kyodo News
Chinese Navy holds the largest-ever air combat
exercise with the most competitive fighters
on 27 Oct, 2014.—Xinhua
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entertainment
Marvel
expands with
Dr Strange,
female Captain
Marvel films
Los Angeles, 29 Oct
— The Marvel cinematic universe is expanding
with new characters Doctor Strange, Black Panther and Captain Marvel,
who will be the first female superhero to anchor
her own Marvel film, the
Walt Disney Co-owned
studio said on Tuesday.
Marvel’s new slate of
eight superhero films announced at a fan event includes both sequels to its
stream of box office hits
and new franchises, with
“Doctor Strange” kicking
off the newcomers in 2016.
Doctor Strange is a
former neurosurgeon who
loses the ability to perform
surgery and turns to magic.
Despite widespread reports
that he would be played
by British actor Benedict
Cumberbatch, Marvel did
not confirm casting.
“We are excited
to tap into what excites us the most,
which is the supernatural,” Marvel studio presi-
Robert Downey Jr poses as he arrives at the screening of the film ‘Marvel’s The
Avengers’ for the closing night of the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival in New York
on 28 April, 2012. —Reuters
dent Kevin Feige said.
“If (casting) were confirmed, we would have introduced him today. Every
single actor of a certain age
has been rumoured to be
Doctor Strange,” he added.
Feige also said there
is plenty of time to
find an actress to
play Captain Marvel, the alter-ego
of a character
named
Carol
Danvers, for the film that
will be released in July
2018.
While Marvel has
female superheroes like
Black Widow played by
Scarlett Johansson, this
is the first time a woman
will anchor a film in what
is widely seen as an effort
to bring more women and
girls to the fanboy heavy
Marvel universe.
Feige said there are
no plans for a stand-alone
Black Widow film, but
that Johansson’s character
will continue to be featured prominently in the
other Marvel films. Black
Panther, the superhero alter-ego of T’Challa, will
premiere in 2017 and will
be played by “42” actor
Chadwick Boseman, who
will also appear in “Captain America: Civil War,”
the third instalment of the
“Captain America” franchise starring Chris Evans.
Boseman and Evans were joined by “Iron
Man” Robert Downey Jr
at the event held where
fans erupted in screams
and cheers while the actors bantered on stage for
a few minutes.
Disney has had a
succession of blockbuster hits from its recently
acquired Marvel Studios,
from Downey Jr’s “Iron
Man,” Evans’ “Captain America” and Chris
Hemsworth’s “Thor.”
Hemsworth
and
Tom Hiddleston, who
plays popular supervillain Loki, will return in
“Thor: Ragnarok” in July
2017, and Feige said the
film will set a new timeline of events that will be
followed in future Marvel
films, which are often interconnected.
“Avengers: Infinity
War,” the third instalment
of the ensemble superhero franchise, will be split
into two parts, with part
one released in May 2018
and part two in May 2019.
Reuters
Megan Fox misses ‘Teenage Mutant
Ninja Turtles’ Beijing premiere
London, 29 Oct — Pregnant singer
Shakira is set to release her own collection of baby products, including a bouncer which plays music, alphabet blocks and
a musical soccer ball.
Shakira, 37, who has 21-month-old
son Milan with boyfriend Gerard Pique,
has teamed up with Fisher-Price on the First
Steps collection of baby products, and has
co-developed six items, reported Contactmusic.
“I saw how important developmental
milestones are and how toys can help babies
reach them, including with my own son. I wanted to design a line of toys that stimulated development in the crucial early stages of life, the
stages in which learning can be achieved through
supervised play, fostering the development of
psychological, social and motor skills,” she said.
The items will go on sale next month and
all proceeds will go towards Shakira’s Barefoot
Foundation, which helps provide education and
nutrition to disadvantaged children in her native
Colombia.
As part of the venture, Shakira will also star
in a 12-part web series for the company, and
some of the three to five minute-long episodes
will feature her son.—PTI
Pregnant singer
Skakira
Los Angeles, 29 Oct — Hollywood beauty Megan Fox skipped ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ Beijing premiere after developing skin allergy. Fans hoping to spot Fox on the red carpet were
left disappointed after the 28-year-old
actress’s skin allergy forced her to stay
at home, reported Us magazine.
Chinese actress Fan Bingbing attended the special event in her place.
Chinese media outfits speculated that
Fox’s allergy could have been caused
by the polluted air. Fox’s people, however, insisted that that was not the case.
“She had an allergic reaction but not
because of the pollution,” a spokesperson said.
The adventure comedy, which was
released in the United States this past
August, is based on the popular franchise that features a fictional team of
Hollywood beauty Megan Fox
four teenage turtles.—PTI
I joined
‘Hunger
Games’
for kids:
Julianne
Moore
Los Angeles, 29 Oct — Actress
Julianne Moore has revealed that
she opted for ‘The Hunger Games:
Mockingjay – Part 1’ because her
kids are obsessed with the sci-fi film
series. Moore, 53, is mother to son
Caleb, 16, and daughter Liv, 12,
with husband Bart Freundlich, reported People magazine.
“Most of the films I make are
not for kids. My son was in line for
the midnight show when The Hunger Games first came out. They both
loved the books. For them, my being
in Mockingjay was fairly meaningful,” she said. Although many actresses fear aging and slow down,
the ‘Carrie’ star says she is energized by the clarity the years have
given her.—PTI
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general
CSKA Moscow have UEFA suspension
modified on appeal
Moscow, 29 Oct — UEFA have modified
CSKA Moscow’s punishment for trouble by their
fans at their Champions League match away to
AS Roma on appeal, European soccer’s governing body said on Tuesday.
CSKA were originally ordered to play their
next three European home games behind closed
doors after incidents involving their supporters,
including racist behaviour, crowd trouble and
setting off flares at the 17 September. Group E
match.
That ban now applies to two matches, UEFA
said on its official website.
“The latest (of the three matches) is suspended for a probationary period of five years,”
it added, referring to the modification.
The Russian Premier League champions
have already played the first of the two matches
of the original suspension, a 2-2 draw against
Manchester City in Moscow last week. Their
next visitors will be Roma.
The Army Men also had their fine reduced
from 200,000 euros ($254,920) to 100,000. Their
prohibition from selling tickets for their next two
Champions League away games stands.
CSKA would not comment with their press
CSKA Moscow’s coach Leonid Slutski (L) reacts during their
Champions League Group E soccer match against Manchester
City at the Arena Khimki outside Moscow, on 21 Oct, 2014.
Reuters
officer Sergey Aksenov saying: “We are not ready to make any
comments until we receive the official reasoning for their decision.
We expect to receive it within a week.”
The team’s draw with City gave them their first points after
three group matches. They lost 5-1 in Rome and 1-0 at home to
unbeaten group leaders Bayern Munich. — Reuters
CBC wins Canada broadcast rights for
2018 and 2020 Olympics
A sign is seen at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation building in Toronto,
on 25 March, 2009.— Reuters
Toronto, 29 Oct —
Canada’s public broadcaster
has won the rights to cover
the 2018 and 2020 Olympics with the help of the two
rival private broadcasters
that have wrestled its most
popular professional sports
assets away from it.
The Canadian Broadcasting Corp (CBC) said
on Tuesday it will broadcast
action from the 2018 Winter
Olympics in Pyeongchang,
South Korea, and the 2020
Summer Olympics in Tokyo, in partnership with telecom and media companies
Rogers Communications
Inc and BCE Inc.
The CBC has been
forced to walk away from
much of its sports coverage
in the face of federal government budget cuts and
fierce bidding for content
by Rogers and BCE.
Rogers owns the
Sportsnet network and recently won a long-term deal
for National Hockey League
(NHL) games. BCE owns
the TSN network. They
jointly own a majority stake
in the company that owns
the Toronto Maple Leafs
NHL team and the Toronto
Raptors of the National Basketball Association.
Financial terms for the
Olympics deal were not
disclosed, but executives
from the three broadcasters later told reporters that
production resources would
be shared and that the most
popular events would have
the broadest possible reach.
“It is a CBC-led games,
I want to be clear about
that,” said Phil King, president of sports programming
at BCE’s Bell Media.
“The CBC put us together, the CBC had the
vision to bring all three of
us (together) and have been
very open about wanting to
use some of our people.”
Priority coverage
would be done by the CBC
and would be available on
free-to-air television. That
would be followed first
by coverage on TSN and
then on Sportsnet, both of
which are available on most
basic cable-TV packages,
and finally by coverage on
BCE and Rogers’ secondary sports channels, which
are available only on more
extensive cable packages.
The broadcast partnership model is “fiscally
responsible,” CBC Chief
Executive Hubert Lacroix
said in a statement.
The CBC has said it
must “reimagine itself”
in a drastically changing
media landscape in which
viewers increasingly turn to
streaming and other online
alternatives and in which
competitors pay more for
premium live sports rights
than the CBC can afford.
When the CBC said
in April it would no longer
bid for professional sporting rights as it tightens its
belt, it made an exception
for the Olympics and other
events deemed of national
importance.
Rogers signed a C$5.2
billion ($4.65 billion) deal
last year for 12 years of
NHL broadcasts, elbowing
aside BCE’s TSN sports
channel and the CBC, whose
most popular programme
for decades has been its Saturday night “Hockey Night
in Canada” broadcasts.
As part of that deal,
Rogers agreed to sub-license some hockey games,
including the NHL playoffs
and the Stanley Cup championship series, to the CBC
for four years.
Reuters
EU on track
so far with
green energy
goals, 2030 a
challenge
Brussels, 29 Oct — EU
nations have work to do
to meet new green energy
goals agreed last week, as
increased fossil fuel burning
last year drove up pollution
in some countries, although
the bloc is on track to meet
its earlier targets, official
data showed on Tuesday.
The figures from the
European Environment
Agency (EEA) showed the
European Union’s overall
emissions fell by 1.8 percent
in 2013 versus 2012, meaning it has already met a 2020
goal to cut pollution by 20
percent versus 1990.
In 2013, the continued
decline coincided with a
slight rise in economic activity, countering arguments
from some in business that
the EU’s green goals are at
odds with expansion and
that economic collapse was
the biggest cause of lower
emissions. However, German emissions rose by 1.2
percent as more fossil fuel
was used for heating.
Denmark also emitted
3.1 percent more greenhouse
gases year-on-year, as a fall
in imports from the Nordic
power market drove it to use
more coal, while Estonia’s
emissions leapt by 10 percent because of coal-burning and an increase in the
amount of energy it exported
generated from oil shale, the
EEA said.—Reuters
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Rocker Phil Collins brings
Alamo collection ‘back home’
to Texas
The David Crockett
Pouch - Powder Flask Musket Balls that Davy
Crockett carried from his
home in Tennessee into
Texas, then a part of the
Republic of Mexico, and
the Alamo are shown
in this photo courtesy
of Texas General Land
Office released on 28 Oct,
2014. — Reuters
San Antonio, 29 Oct
— British rock legend Phil
Collins brought his massive collection of Alamo
artifacts on Tuesday to the
San Antonio site those in
the Lone Star State call the
“Shrine of Texas Liberty”
for a museum that will be
named in his honour.
“This completes the
journey for me,” Collins
said in front of a building
across the street from the
Alamo that will temporarily
house the collection while a
planned $100 million centre
to display the Phil Collins
Alamo Collection is being
built. “These artifacts are
coming home,” said Collins, 63, who became fascinated by the Alamo while
watching Fess Parker star
as “Davy Crockett, King of
the Wild Frontier,” while he
was a small child growing
up in suburban London.
Reuters
Balotelli inspires Liverpool, Chelsea tame Shrews
Chelsea’s Petr Cech keeps warm during their League Cup fourth round soccer
match against Shrewsbury Town at Greenhous Meadow in Shrewsbury, central
England on 28 Oct, 2014. —Reuters
second half with a superb
volley.
A sustained roar erupted around Anfield as Balotelli’s effort found the
net, as much in celebration of the goal as it was
grounded in relief that the
misfiring striker had finally
found his range at a crucial
time.
It was the start of a
dramatic finale that saw
Swansea’s Federico Fernandez sent off for a late
tackle and Dejan Lovren
head home the winner after
four minutes of stoppage
time, to leave eight-times
winners Liverpool wellplaced to launch another
assault on a trophy they last
won in 2012.
Premier League leaders Chelsea will also fancy their chances of getting
their hands on a cup they
have won four times but
they needed a wake-up call
before ousting fourth tier
Shrewsbury 2-1.
“I wasn’t expecting
anything but a difficult
Relief for Dortmund as they cruise through in German Cup
Berlin, 29 Oct —
Borussia
Dortmund
bounced back after slumping to their fourth straight
Bundesliga defeat against
Hanover 96 at the weekend, cruising past second
tier St Pauli 3-0 on Tuesday
to reach the German Cup
third round. Ciro Immobile, under-fire for his lack
of goals this season, tapped
the visitors in front after 33
minutes before Marco Reus
rifled in the second goal after a cut-back by the Italian
a minute before the break.
Apart from two early
chances for the hosts, the
second half was a subdued
affair with Dortmund focused on holding on to their
lead rather than adding to
their goal tally. They made
Borussia Dortmund’s Shinji Kagawa celebrates after
scoring a goal during their German soccer cup (DFB
Pokal) match against FC St. Pauli in Hamburg
on 28 Oct, 2014.—Reuters
it 3-0 when a bad clearance
by keeper Philipp Tschauner
fell straight to Shinji Kagawa and the Japanese made
no mistake as he gave his
side a boost of self belief
ahead of Saturday’s league
game with Bayern Munich.
“It was important to advance
after the few weeks we have
had,” Dortmund captain
Mats Hummels told ARD
television. “It is a matter of
confidence for us but we can
get it back.” Dortmund, last
season’s Bundesliga and
German Cup runners-up,
have suffered six defeats in
nine games to slide to fourth
from bottom in the table.
Werder Bremen coach
Viktor Skripnik made a
winning start as his new
club eased past third tier
Chemnitz 2-0.
Ukrainian
Skripnik
replaced the sacked Robin
Dutt on Saturday, with the
former champions anchored
in last place in the league.
Fin Bartels put them ahead
in the first half and Franco
Di Santo drilled in the second goal after a fine through
ball from Clemens Fritz after
the interval.—Reuters
Putin says needs effective, yet subtle World Cup security
Moscow, 29 Oct — Russian President Vladimir Putin
said on Tuesday security at the 2018 World Cup would be
“effective but not intrusive”, underlining to his security
chiefs the need for subtle measures that will not scare off
fans.
At a meeting of Russian and FIFA officials, Putin
won support from FIFA president Sepp Blatter for Russia’s staging of the football championship despite calls by
some Western officials to move it elsewhere because of
Moscow’s role in Ukraine.
Putin urged the security services to work together to
make sure the tournament, to be staged in 12 stadiums
in 11 Russian cities at a cost of 664 billion roubles (9.6
billion pounds), passes off without problems.
“Here there should be complete cooperation, coordination of work of all services and departments. It should
be marked for personal responsibility,” Putin told a meet-
ing of Russian, regional and FIFA officials.
“Security measures should be effective, but not intrusive, not excessive,” he said. “Do not create problems, or
discomfort for athletes and fans.”
Although winning the right to host the World Cup
stirred national pride, Moscow has faced calls for the
finals to be played elsewhere because of its role in the
Ukraine crisis and some Western officials have suggested
a boycott.
Blatter said it was impossible to boycott football.
“FIFA firmly supports holding this championship in
Russia,” he told the same meeting. For Putin, the World
Cup, like the Winter Olympics Russia staged in February,
are projects aimed at showing how Russia has developed
since Soviet days into a modern state worthy of a seat at
the table of top nations.
Reuters
match. I was ready for extra-time,” Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho told Sky
Sports television, and he
was not wrong.
Didier Drogba gave
them the lead, with his third
goal in three games, but the
match seemed headed for
extra-time when Shrewsbury’s Andy Mangan swivelled to fire past keeper
Petr Cech with 13 minutes
to play.
Nemanja Matic and
Willian were promptly
summoned from the bench
to help quell the uprising,
the latter’s superb cross
causing panic in the defensive ranks and Jermaine
Grandison turning the ball
into his own net.
“I don’t say relieved
with the result. I am happy
with my players’ approach.
You’re playing a World
Cup final because that is
what it is for Shrewsbury,”
Mourinho added.
West Brom probably thought they had done
enough to force extra-time
when a Tommy Elphick
own goal with five minutes
to go at Bournemouth levelled the scores at 1-1.
But it was the hosts
who progressed thanks
to Callum Wilson’s late
strike, capping a superb
few days for the south coast
club after they thrashed
Birmingham City 8-0 in
the Championship at the
weekend.
Bournemouth almost
went bust in 2008 and only
avoided relegation from
the Football League on the
last day of the following
season having been docked
17 points for going into administration.
Elsewhere on Tuesday, Derby County came
from 2-0 down to beat
Championship rivals Fulham 5-2 and Sheffield
United downed Milton
Keynes Dons 2-1 in an allLeague One encounter.
On Wednesday, holders Manchester City face
Newcastle United while
Tottenham Hotspur take on
Brighton and Hove Albion
and Stoke City host Southampton.
Reuters
Champion Djokovic breezes
through at Paris Masters
Paris, 29 Oct —
World number one Novak
Djokovic began his Paris Masters title defence
with a routine 6-3, 6-4
win over German Philipp
Kohlschreiber in the second round on Tuesday.
The top seed, who had
a first-round bye, next faces 13th-seeded American
John Isner or Frenchman
Gael Monfils for a place in
the quarter-finals.
Djokovic, who is in a
race with Roger Federer to
end the season on top of the
rankings, quickly opened a
3-0 lead playing some aggressive tennis at the Bercy
arena.
Kohlschreiber pulled
a break back but his opponent held firm to bag the
opening set with a service
winner. Djokovic then
broke in the first game of
the second set as the German struggled to focus.
Kohlschreiber
produced a series of beautiful backhand winners but
could still not manage to
unsettle the Serb.
Djokovic, who became a father for the first
time last week, wrapped up
victory on his first match
point. “It was a very good
match considering the fact
that I didn’t play indoors
for a year (since last year’s
Novak Djokovic of Serbia
ATP World Tour Finals). I
struggled a little bit physically. It was a pretty tough
couple of weeks,” DJokovic told reporters.
The Paris Masters
will decide who travels to
London next month for the
Tour Finals with Djokovic,
Federer, Stanislas Wawrinka and Marin Cilic already
qualified.
Czech Tomas Berdych, the fifth seed who
currently sits eighth in the
Race to London, reached
the third round with a 6-4,
6-7(3), 6-2 defeat of French
wild card Adrian Mannarino.
A Berdych defeat
would have ensured Briton Andy Murray qualified
for the Tour finals, but the
Czech regained his composure after losing a second set tiebreak, and never
looked back after a decisive break in the third game
of the decider.—Reuters
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London, 29 Oct —
Mario Balotelli enjoyed a
rare moment of ecstasy in
a Liverpool shirt by inspiring a 2-1 win over Swansea
City in the League Cup on
Tuesday while Chelsea had
to call for reinforcements to
see off Shrewsbury Town.
On a night when Premier League West Bromwich Albion were dumped
out by second tier Bournemouth, both Liverpool and
Chelsea flirted with danger
before reaching the quarter-finals.
Liverpool fans have
seen precious little in Balotelli’s performances this
season to convince them
he could ride to the rescue when the chips were
down but he came off the
bench to turn the clash with
Swansea on its head.
Entering the fray on
79 minutes, the Italian took
seven minutes to level the
scores as he stole in front
of his marker to prod home
a cross from compatriot
Fabio Borini after Marvin
Emnes had put Swansea
ahead midway through the
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